something uplifting New Yorkers...... best live concert ever from Freddie M and Queen - crazy little thing called love ( will keep you sane through the insanity..... )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQsM6u0a038
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/lipa_exec_high_doltage_t9GHFXfjbBgV7nAaL1Zd0L
http://www.infowars.com/femas-camp-freedom-concentration-camp-with-blackhawk-helicopters-flying-above/
http://offgridsurvival.com/nynycitylootingchaos/
( Why aren't the media allowed access ? Why are police blocking attempts by citizens to contact media - seems like they are being treated like criminals to me ? )
FEMA, the federal agency who’s responsible for responding to natural disasters and emergencies, apparently can’t figure out how to respond to anything. Over a week after Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, the agency is still having trouble providing basic emergency supplies and shelter to the affected area.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/chef-busted-hoarding-gas-sparked-fire-manhattan-restaurant-article-1.1200160
and.....
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/frigid_furious_liers_turn_up_heat_WzSLmyAQ7BznchhPh79LeO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
and.....
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/merchants_battling_growing_mold_C9YfFCRUBZ6CTXHqFOSRHO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQsM6u0a038
LIPA exec tells customers who have no power to download forms on the Internet
- Last Updated: 6:56 AM, November 12, 2012
- Posted: 1:10 AM, November 12, 2012
They’re not only powerless — they’re clueless, too.
A Long Island Power Authority official told a crowd of 300 Rockaway residents that they would need to hire a licensed city electrician to inspect their homes before LIPA could restore power, and suggested the homeowners print out inspection forms — from the Internet.
“But we don’t have power!” the crowd shouted back at LIPA’s vice president of operations, Nicholas Lizanich.
A red-faced Lizanich then told the Queens residents they could pick up forms at LIPA command centers on the peninsula.
As Lizanich went on to explain the continued outages to the frustrated residents at the outdoor public meeting at Beach 94th Street, his microphone cut in and out — to the delight of the crowd.
Reuters
FROM THE ASHES: Meg McLaughlin yesterday clambers atop the wreckage of her father’s house in Breezy Point, Queens, looking for memories to salvage.
“On a scale of zero to 100, I give [LIPA] a zero,” grumbled homeowner Jim Silvestri, who asked whether he could use a Nassau County-certified electrician and was told no.
“There’s not enough licensed electricians in the City of New York to take care of this,” he added.
The confrontation between LIPA and residents came as New York City’s death toll from Hurricane Sandy climbed and officials vowed to investigate the city’s response to the apocalyptic storm.
Former Police Academy custodian and great-grandfather Albert McSwain, 77, was added to the death count after the Medical Examiner’s Office concluded that his tragic fall on wet steps at his city-owned apartment building in the hard-hit Rockaways was connected to the storm.
McSwain was left clinging to life after slipping at the top of a stairwell on Oct. 31, two days after the storm, and falling in his dark and flooded Rockaway Beach Boulevard building.
The retiree died Saturday at Jamaica Hospital.
“He was walking up the stairs and slipped,” said his distraught daughter, Allison Lockett. “We had no power, and the stairs were very wet.”
Officials said the city’s official death toll is now 43.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced the council would hold hearings on how the crisis has been handled but did not give a date.
Councilman Mark Weprin (D-Queens), who has called for hearings, said, “In order to deal with situations like Sandy, there is a need to assess what went right, what went wrong, and who should be held accountable.”
Mayor Bloomberg tried to reassure New Yorkers that response teams were hard at work in hard-hit areas.
“Since Hurricane Sandy hit New York, the city has been working around-the-clock to meet the needs of people living in the areas that were hit hardest, like the Rockaways, Staten Island, Red Hook and Coney Island. And every day, we’re expanding our efforts,” Bloomberg said in his weekly radio address yesterday.
“Medical teams are also going door to door in high-rise buildings without power to ensure residents who remained in their homes are safe.”
But that was little comfort to people like 93-year-old Linda Doyle, a ninth-floor resident who has not been outside her Rockaways high-rise since the storm.
“I can’t take this,” Doyle said. “I’d love to go out, take some air in and walk a little.”
Doyle added that her one wish for her 94th birthday tomorrow is to feel the sunshine on her face and visit with her 91-year-old sister, who lives nearby but whom she hasn’t been able to see since before the storm.
Despite the continuing horror stories — including Canarsie condos destroyed by water from Jamaica Bay — officials are reporting progress and countless examples of pitching in:
* Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano met with state and local officials in Staten Island yesterday and said it looked like “a different place” from what she saw 10 days earlier.
* Gov. Cuomo said the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel will reopen today for rush-hour bus service.
* City employees will be able to set aside part of their paychecks directly to relief efforts.
http://www.infowars.com/femas-camp-freedom-concentration-camp-with-blackhawk-helicopters-flying-above/
FEMA’s Camp Freedom: Concentration Camp with Blackhawk Helicopters Flying Above
Infowars.com
November 11, 2012
November 11, 2012
It’s a story the establishment media is largely ignoring – a tent city set-up by FEMA at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey, for Hurricane Sandy victims more closely resembles a military concentration camp than something provided by a loving and humanitarian government.
The Asbury Park Press managed to talk with internees who described huddling in freezing cold tents with Blackhawk helicopters circling above.
“The elections are over and here we are,” a resident told the Asbury Park Press. “There were Blackhawk helicopters flying over all day and night. They have heavy equipment moving past the tents all night.”
He said FEMA stopped them from taking photos of “Camp Freedom” and turned off the WiFi and said they couldn’t charge their smart phones because there wasn’t enough power. “Every time we plugged in an iPhone or something, the cops would come and unplug them,” he said.
The man described the “micro-city” (as FEMA calls it) as a prison. The Red Cross promised facilities with washing machines and hot showers, but sent victims to live in unheated tents.
FEMA’s response is predictable. After all, it was designed for martial law and rounding up and interning people in concentration camps. FEMA’s disaster response role in basically a sham and a public relations front.
http://offgridsurvival.com/nynycitylootingchaos/
( Why aren't the media allowed access ? Why are police blocking attempts by citizens to contact media - seems like they are being treated like criminals to me ? )
Parts of New York City Descending into Absolute Chaos
FEMA, the federal agency who’s responsible for responding to natural disasters and emergencies, apparently can’t figure out how to respond to anything. Over a week after Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, the agency is still having trouble providing basic emergency supplies and shelter to the affected area.
And now to add insult to injury, FEMA has actually had to shut down emergency relief shelters due to a snow storm that just hit the area.
Is this really what America voted for? We spend billions of dollars a year on this agency and they can’t even handle the one thing their supposed to be able to do; respond to an emergency situation.
Emergency Shelters that are open, are Death Traps
According to the Asbury Park Press, those that have managed to find open shelters are living in conditions that are worse than what they left. Many of them have been shuttled to FEMA shelters that are nothing more than large tents that have no electricity, no running water, no heat, and barely enough supplies for those living in the shelters.
The Media is not being allowed inside any of these fenced complexes, but some evacuees are starting to speak out. One resident of FEMA’s tent city, told the Asbury Park Press.
“The elections are over and here we are. There were Blackhawk helicopters flying over all day and night. They have heavy equipment moving past the tents all night”…” Everybody is angry over here. It’s like being prison”
When residents of FEMA’s tent city tried to call out and inform the media, officials tried to stop them from taking pictures, turned off the WiFi and stopped allowing people to charge their smart phones.
One Evacuee told the Press:
“After everyone started complaining and they found out we were contacting the press, they brought people in. Every time we plugged in an iPhone or something, the cops would come and unplug them.”
Sickness Breaking Out in Shelter Camps
In Brooklyn, three shelters had to be closed down and sanitized after a stomach virus broke out and sickened a large number of the evacuees.
Prisons to Be Used as Emergency Shelters
With over 40,000 New Yorkers still in desperate need of shelter, The New York Post is reporting that City officials may use an empty prison on Staten Island to feed and house as many as 900 victims.
Gas Rationing Hits New York City
New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg announced that because of major disruptions in the gas supply, the city will now have to ration gas for at least the next two weeks. The city has failed to reopen over 75% of its gas stations, and those that are open are struggling to meet the high demand.
Criminals Take Over
The mainstream media may have forgotten about New York and the government may not want to talk about its failures, but the fact is large areas of New York City (mainly the poor areas) have descended into absolute chaos.
Almost a week after Sandy pummeled the East Coast, some areas of New York and New Jersey have been taken over by criminals. The scenes look like something right out of a post apocalyptic Hollywood movie, as residents wielding bows and arrows, bats and anything else they can get their hands on try to protect their homes against looters.
I honestly wish I didn’t have to write another story about the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy; but this country can’t afford to ignore the lessons of another disaster and how our government once again failed to do their job. People need to wake up to the fact that we can’t rely on our government to help during an emergency situation.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/chef-busted-hoarding-gas-sparked-fire-manhattan-restaurant-article-1.1200160
Chef busted for hoarding gas that sparked fire at Manhattan restaurant
Fei Teng, 42, an employee at ENO on First Ave. at E. 58th St. kept gas concealed in the basement of the restaurant until he asked a dishwasher to bring it to him at his car about 10 p.m. Friday, the FDNY said.
Fire marshals busted a sushi chef at an East Side restaurant after gasoline he hoarded in soy sauce buckets caught fire and seriously burned three of his co-workers, FDNY officials said.
Fei Teng, 42, an employee at ENO on First Ave. at E. 58th St. kept gas concealed in the basement of the restaurant until he asked a dishwasher to bring it to him at his car about 10 p.m. Friday, the FDNY said.
That’s when “more than half of the gasoline had spilled onto the kitchen floor,” according to FDNY spokesman Frank Dwyer.
The gas ignited and a chef nearby was immediately torched. He had first- and second-degree burns over his body and on his face. A busboy and a waitress suffered second- and third-degree burns on their legs.
All were brought to the burn unit at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where they remained Saturday night.
Storm relief workers eating there assisted victims. The restaurant was closed Saturday. Shayna Jacobs
and.....
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/frigid_furious_liers_turn_up_heat_WzSLmyAQ7BznchhPh79LeO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
Frigid, furious LIers turn up heat on LIPA
- Last Updated: 2:28 PM, November 10, 2012
- Posted: 1:44 AM, November 10, 2012
Devastated by the double whammy of Sandy and a nor’easter, cold, powerless Long Islanders hit the streets to rail against LIPA as the Nassau County executive said the situation is “beyond urgent.”
“We want answers!” residents of Oceanside — which was socked with 6 inches of snow this week after being ravaged by Sandy’s surges — demanded at a rally outside School 8 yesterday.
They booed Rep. Carolyn McCarthy and Hempstead’s town supervisor, accusing them of not making enough noise on their behalf.
Despite line crews working round the clock, LIPA hasn’t given a timetable for power restoration for the more than 170,000 customers still in the dark.
In Oceanside and nearby Island Park, frozen residents, some now homeless, huddled around garbage-drum fires for warmth and appealed to FEMA for help.
After a recent meeting with the agency, one Island Park woman tried to remain upbeat, with a Facebook posting that read: “It brought me to tears to see so many of us looking hungry, dirty, desperate, helpless and tired, but not one person complained.”
“Even many said it could have been worse -- and some if not most lost everything.”
At a press conference with federal, state and local officials, Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano said, “Long Island’s power is past the point of crisis . . . To put it in terms that Washington can readily understand, LIPA’s power is at Defcon 2. The condition is beyond urgent.”
Rep. Peter King, chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, called LIPA’s performance “completely abysmal.”
Private volunteers from all over the country have begun to arrive with aid — including doctors from Michigan and Colorado and two paramedics, sent by FEMA from St. Louis, who have slept in an ambulance for eight days in Oceanside.
Volunteers from Island Harvest Foods yesterday headed out to distribute 20,000 sandwiches and drinks to Oceanside, Island Park and surrounding towns.
and.....
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/merchants_battling_growing_mold_C9YfFCRUBZ6CTXHqFOSRHO
Merchants battling growing mold menace
- Last Updated: 2:19 PM, November 10, 2012
- Posted: 1:44 AM, November 10, 2012
The devastated business owners who saw their South Street Seaport stores destroyed by Hurricane Sandy are under attack again — by thick green mold that has infested their once-bustling shops.
Workers in hazmat suits and surgical masks yesterday pulled large clods of the dangerous green growth from buildings in the low-lying area, which residents said suffered 10-foot storm surges.
“Fungus is everywhere. There was bad mold — it was green, an inch thick . . . I lost everything,” said a shaken Shawn Makani, owner of Cafe on the Pier, who plans to reopen.
Dan Brinzac
BAGGING IT: A cleanup crew in hazmat suits removes mold yesterday from low-lying businesses in and around the South Street Seaport.
“We have to wear masks to protect ourselves. It’s dangerous,” said a worker who hauled moldy debris from the Abercrombie & Fitch on Water Street.
Mold growth isn’t covered by city health rules, but the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has published guidelines for its removal.
The DOH suggests yanking out mold-infested sheetrock and wooden flooring and using blow-dryers to stop its growth in concrete and other materials.
Businesses in the neighborhood appeared to be following the city guidelines.
“I think the small businesses have done everything that needs to be done,” said Robert LaValva, who runs a food market at the old Fulton Fish Market building. “Everything that got soaked is being removed.”
The neighborhood’s oldest buildings — some of which date to the early 1800s — weathered the storm better than the Financial District office buildings nearby on Water Street, some of which will be closed for months.
The Seaport Museum’s ships, a big tourist draw, rode through the storm unscathed.
Marco Pasanalla had hot water, heat and electricity again yesterday in his wine shop, Pasanalla & Son, at 115 South St.
He expects to reopen soon but says the shutdown of nearby office towers has cut the foot traffic vital to business.
“There is this longer-term prospect of having nobody around, which is really scary,” Pasanalla said.
and....
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/manhattan_mini_storage_customers_2lXBcQNafFzVpD5Kpuk9FJ
Manhattan Mini-Storage customers upset after belongings ruined by Hurricane Sandy
- Last Updated: 3:50 PM, November 10, 2012
- Posted: 2:18 PM, November 10, 2012
Workers dump storm-damaged items being stored at Manhattan Mini-Storage
These customers say they have been left high — and wet.
People renting lockers from two Manhattan Mini-Storage facilities in Chelsea not only discovered their belongings ruined by Hurricane Sandy — they may have to scramble to find their moldy possessions.
“The continued presence of these items in the building now represents an immediate health and safety threat as well as an obstacle to our ability to completely address and eliminate the hazard,” Mini Storage told customers in an email late last week.
Robert Miller
Mira Chang in tears
“Accordingly, we are now undertaking actions to evacuate the contents of all storage rooms in the basements of these two buildings,” the letter reads.
The news reduced some customers in tears.
“The only thing I care about was my entire life of writing,” said a tearful Mira Chang, 40, a film producer who paid about $90 a month to keep an archive of her work at the West 21st Street building. The other facility was also on West 21st Street.
Customers said the company didn’t notify them of any damage until a week after the storm and closed early as the monstrous cyclone approached.
“I realized all of that was gone — it’s toxic down there and so I don’t know if it’s even safe to bring it up. You go down there with a mask and you can’t even breathe” Chang said.
Ellen Hains, 48 said she lost everything from her grandmother’s 100-year-old chest to 20 pairs of shoes — now reduced to a moldy mess.
Customers like Hains and Chang— who’s lockers were in the flooded basement — were distraught.
“I’m traumatized,” Hains said.
Harris said she was told the company may not be able to reimburse customers because the flooding “was an act of God.”
The company said no one’s belongings are being discarded.
“We tried in every way imaginable to reach out to our guests to tell them to come down over the weekend and clean out their belongings,” said company spokeswoman Stacy Stewart, who said if customers can’t get down to the site, their items will be moved to another location.
She said the company will work with customers on a case by case basis, and may compensate some for their losses.
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